Liars, damn liars, & storytellers : essays on traditional and contemporary storytelling / Joseph Sobol.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sobol, Joseph Daniel, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Storytelling.

Physical Description:

xviii, 312 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Liars, damn liars, and storytellers

Place of Publication:

Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [2020]

Summary:

"This book presents a collection of essays on the art and tradition of storytelling. The essays range in topic from traditional Jack Tales to well-known storytellers, such as Ray Hicks and Kathryn Windham Tucker, to the nature of folklore and the future of storytelling as an art form"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 IN A TRADITION

1. Jack of a Thousand Faces

2. Hardy Hard-Ass: Jack in the Raw

3. "Whistlin towards the Devil's House": Poetic Transformations and Natural Metaphysics in an Appalachian Folktale Performance

4. Ray Hicks and the Doctors

5. The Next Last of the Breed: Dynastic Succession and Resistance in an Appalachian Storytelling Clan

pt. 2 FROM TRADITION TO REVIVAL

6. Raising Up Abraham

7. Innervision and Innertext: Oral Traditional and Oral Interpretive Modes of Storytelling Performance

8. Little Names and Big Names: Kathryn Tucker Windham and the American Storytelling Movement

9. Miss Kathryn's Epitaph: A Bright Thanatophany

10. Oracy in the New Millennium: Storytelling Revival in America and Bhutan

11. Contemporary Storytelling: Revived Traditional Art and Protean Social Agent

12. Holocaust Tales and the Ethics of Storytelling Genres: Reflections on The Remarkable Tale of Robert Desnos

13. Liars, Damn Liars, and Storytellers: Dimensions of Truth in Storytelling Ethics and Aesthetics

14. Epilogue: the Road Not Taken.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Sobol, Joseph Daniel. Liars, damn liars, and storytellers.

ISBN:

9781621905646

1621905640

OCLC:

1129144189